Mark Zuckerberg reportedly bought the original t-shirt of 'The Social Network' for $4000 in an auction

In a cameo on The Colin and Samir Show, Mark Zuckerberg admitted to buying one of Jesse Eisenberg's T-shirts from the 2010 movie The Social Network. Zuckerberg, who now wears the shirt as a keepsake, said it was auctioned off for around $4,095 (about $4,000).

The shirt in question comes from a memorable scene in which Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) visits the Palo Alto home where Facebook’s early team lived and worked in the summer of 2004.

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Mark Zuckerberg's original t-shirt from The Social Network: more details

When Zuckerberg appeared in the podcast, he wore the same shirt he had bought in auction. The blue T-shirt, stamped with “Ardsley Athletics XXL,” is a piece of apparel associated with The Social Network — a movie that dramatized the nascent years of Facebook.

There’s more to the T-shirt than its souvenir status, however. Zuckerberg’s character in The Social Network, played by Jesse Eisenberg, has a few subtle sartorial choices that help convey his personality and the start-up culture of the early 2000s tech boom.

The T-shirt was bought in at Propstore Auction, where it was sold for the winning bid of $4,095. For Zuckerberg, that tangible piece of cinematic history was less about the investment value than it was about owning a relic that symbolizes the interplay between art, media, and real-world tech innovation.

Mark Zuckerberg’s reign at Facebook, later rebranded as Meta, is characterized by a combination of revolutionary innovation and contentious decision-making. Over the years, movies like The Social Network have helped shape his public persona. The T-shirt purchase, in this sense, is a symbolic reclamation of that narrative.

Mark Zuckerberg buying the t-shirt is more than just one auction win, it exemplifies how a single piece of clothing can distill an entire narrative specifically one that mingles fact with fiction, and reshapes public perception. By owning this item, not only does he indulge in a quirky piece of film history, he also hints at the persistent myths surrounding his own tech rise.